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A person gets sick after interacting with bats in the area, and then they talk to their virologist friend who works at the Wuhan Virology Institute and suddenly
by undersuit 5y ago
A person gets sick after interacting with bats in the area, and then they talk to their virologist friend who works at the Wuhan Virology Institute and suddenly there are a rash of illnesses.
Do we still get to blame the lab for a leak?
- busterarm 5y agoExcept there's no bats in that area. At least not ones with SARS-CoV2.
- undersuit 5y agoThere are no bats in Wuhan? I find that hard to believe. There are no discovered bat populations in the Wuhan region with a SARS-COV2 ancestor, that's more likely. That the only source of bats infected with a SARS-COV2 relative is in the Yunnan province, that's pretty unlikely.
- busterarm 5y agoThere are three bat species with an identified SARS-CoV2 relative (RaTG13, RmYN02, RshSTT182 and RshSTT200) and none of them are found in Wuhan.
- undersuit 5y agoYeah exactly. > With over 100 species recognised, China has one of the richest bat faunas in the Palaearctic. You need to prove a negative. You need to prove the bats in Wuhan don't have Covid. More and more bats in Yunnan doesn't do that.